Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also questions Graham's credibility as a rent control activist. He claims her son bought a house in Cambridge last year and attempted to evict the tenants in order to move into it himself...
Graham has espoused activist causes in the Legislature and City Council. Her work includes advocacy for rent control, child care services, gay rights, and education reform...
Women's studies "questions the masculinization of intellectual authority," said Catharine Stimpson, dean of the Graduate School of Rutgers University and a long-time feminist activist...
...years our family has been involved with public service," boasts Thomas, who has also opted to follow that calling. Since graduating from the Kennedy School of Government in 1975, he has worked for the Dukakis administration and for civil rights activist Eleanor Holmes Norton. Most recently, he resigned from the New England Equal Opportunity Commission, a government oversight agency on civil rights. "I could not carry out my oath," Thomas says, because of the Reagan Administration policy that seeks curbs on affirmative action programs...
...large variety of activist groups worked together to plan the rally. Protesters included the Harvard Radcliffe Alumni for Divestiture, the Harvard Tenants Union, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), and the student-run Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC...